Redditor Loses 100 Pounds By Exercising And Eating Less Carbs

This Redditor Lost 100 Pounds By Following These Two Simple Tricks

Turning your life around is far from easy when you have gained a bunch of weight over the years. But redditor Deforges has had enough. After a whole lifetime of being overweight and living a sedentary lifestyle, he decided to turn his life around and tackle his weight problem head on.

As you may already know, weight loss is far more about diet than exercise. Obviously, it wouldn't be wise to completely ignore the latter, but making a habit out of healthy eating is what will generate the biggest results. Redditor Deforges decided to try two eating approaches: Intermittent fasting and a ketogenic diet.

Intermittent fasting

One of the most straightforward methods to shed a couple of pounds of fat is to fast intermittently. It's as simple as it sounds. Every couple of days, you fast for a set number of hours, which forces your body to get into the habit of burning additional fat reserves. It can also help boost your metabolism.

A ketogenic diet

Cutting out the majority of superfluous carbohydrates is an excellent and highly-effective method of fat loss. A ketogenic diet is a high-fat, minimal-carb eating plan. Redditor Deforges points out he first had to reevaluate his unhealthy relationship with food before minimizing his consumption of carbohydrates. He ultimately found he could feel satiated on a low-calorie, low-carb diet.

Like all other diets, a low-carb diet is mainly based on the simple principle that in order to lose weight, you have to burn more calories than you consume. Since a low-carb diet automatically encourages the consumption of whole, unprocessed foods like fruits and vegetables (which are lower in calories), this principle tends to come in effect automatically.

A Push, Pull, Legs workout regiment

There are countless ways to work out at the gym and they all have their pros and cons, so finding the one that suits your needs can be tricky. Redditor Devorges decided to stick to a routine that splits up push (think bench press), pull (think pull ups) and legs into three separate days (but this doesn't always have to be the case). It's a great way to target different muscle groups within a week while allowing for optimal recovery. Have a look at his post for more details.